Scott Banwart's Blog

Moving Complete

If you are reading this, then you are looking at this blog at its new home at http://scottbanwart.com. Just a reminder that links to rogue-technology.com will redirect here for a while, but you will want to update any bookmarks you have to the old domain ...

A New Home

Sometime within the next two weeks I will be moving this blog to a new domain. "Rogue Technology" was my "doing business as" name when I decided to become an independent consultant many years ago. That venture never really went anywhere and I have decided that it ...

Microsoft has finally released an integration roadmap. For the past several years there has been concern over the future of BizTalk and Microsoft's integration strategy. For many BizTalk developers, the perception was that BizTalk was no longer a strategic product and that Microsoft was just putting in the minimum ...

I cannot believe 2015 is over already. That means it is once again time to review my favorite books for 2015. I read a lot this year, but only a few books. I was focused on learning more about distributed systems theory and that meant I read a lot of ...

Introduction

The other day I was working on building a PowerShell script to provision some Azure resources using the Azure Resource Manager module. I had some difficulty with authenticating my script with my Azure account. The documentation for the PowerShell module was not very clear on the authentication requirements and ...

Introduction

ESB Toolkit supports a number of adapters out-of-the-box, but the WCF-NetTcp and WCT-WebHttp adapters are noticeably absent from the list in the itinerary designer and the transport type vocabulary BRE. According to the documentation, it's possible to build your own adapter providers to add support for additional adapters ...

On a recent project I had a need to simulate a batch aggregation process using BizTalk. In this scenario, the source system would produce data files. Each file would represent one business transaction. The destination system, however, was expecting to receive all of the transactions in a single file. There ...

Here is a little something that I did not realize was happening when BizTalk executes a transform. If you have a property schema associated with the destination schema in a map, BizTalk will automatically promote those properties when it executes the map. This does not help if you need to ...

One of my favorite aspects of BizTalk is that there is always something new to learn. I have seen the ESB Dispatcher Disassemble component and I know it can be used to debatch an XML file and execute an itinerary. What I did not know is that it can be ...

I am a little late with my favorite books list for 2014, but better late than never. Right? Unfortunately I did not get to read as many books as would have liked this past year. Last Year I mentioned I wanted to get into Big Data but that did not ...